Carlo Vincetti Frizzo’s music has been played nationally as well as abroad, including conferences such as the MTNA (Music Teachers National Association) National Conference, the Louisiana State University Festival of Contemporary Music, Society of Composers Inc. (SCI) 5th Student National Conference, and the College Music Society (CMS) Southern Chapter 25th Annual Meeting where he won Outstanding Student Composition Award. In 2005, he attended the Interlochen Composers Institute where he studied under David Gillingham and Michael Daugherty. The past two summers, he has participated in the Bowdoin International Music Festival where has studied with Samuel Adler, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, and Bright Sheng.
Many of his works have been recorded on Magni Publications including Sfogato for solo flute featuring the flutist, Iwona Glinka. In addition, String Quartet No. 1 and An American Impression for string orchestra were released on Magni Publications with performances by members of the Louisiana Sinfonietta. Recently, his vocal work, Wind and Window Flower and string trio for two violins and viola, Celestial Horizons: Three Scenes from the Cosmos was recorded on New Tertian Recordings.
He was a regional winner of the 2006 and 2004 SCI/ASCAP Student Commission Competition. He has received several ASCAP Awards. He won first place in both the 2002-2003 LMTA (Louisiana Music Teachers Association) and the South Central Division of MTNA Collegiate Composition Competition, and received second place in the MTNA National Student Composition Competition. The following year (2003-2004), he received first place in both the LMTA and South Central Division of MTNA Young Artist Composition Competition, and was named the winner of the MTNA National Student Composition Competition.
His article “Concert Review†was published in the Fall 2002 “ComposerUSA†(The bulletin of the National Association of Composers, U.S.A.). Mr. Frizzo is a member of NACUSA, SCI, SCL (Southeastern Composers League), and ASCAP (American Society of Composers). He holds a BA degree in Keyboard Studies and French from Murray State University. He studied piano and organ under Dr. Stephen Brown, and in 1998, he won first place in the Bluegrass Division at the Kentucky Music Teacher’s Association Piano Competition. He has completed his MM degree at Louisiana State University where he studied composition under Dr. Dinos Constantinides and electro-acoustic composition under Dr. Stephen David Beck. He currently resides in Pittsburgh, PA and studies under David Stock.
